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District: Leiria · Região de Leiria

Castanheira de Pêra

Legal regime in 2026: DL 124/2006 (municipal forest fire plan still in force)

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Castanheira de Pêra is a municipality in the district of Leiria (sub-region: Região de Leiria), covering 67 km² in one parish. Most of it, 91 %, is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.

The map finds 45 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Castanheira de Pera, Vilar and Gestosa Fundeira. 32 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Vilar, Sarzedas de São Pedro and Pêra.

Parcels with a clearing duty
3,798 of 9,515 parcels
Share of the municipality with mapped parcels
Strip area (whole municipality)
583 ha
Villages
45

BUPi and the land cadastre cover only 40 % of the municipality, so we show the total strip area rather than just that of the mapped parcels.